National Republican., 1887-11-07
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and twenty five dollars to hear the swedish |
songstiess in New York, aud another six |
hundred and twenty-five dollars to hear her In
Boston, and another six hundred and iihy |
dollars to hear her In Providence. Fabulous
prices have been paid for sweet sounds but far
more has been paid for discord rno Crlmeau
dollars, and our American civil war over niue
and half billion dollars, and the war debts of
professed Christian nations are about fifteen
ticket, which admits 1t to the saturnalia OF |
broken bones, and death agonics, aud de-
stroyed cities, aud ploughed graves, and |
asks. Discordl Dlscordl
But have TO tell you that the song that the |
morning stars sang together, ut the laying OF |
worlds cornerstone, is to bo resumed again |
Mozarts greatest overture was composed one
night when he was several times overpowornd |
with With sleep and artists say they can t,ll % the
asleep, and the places where he awakened 50 |
the overture of the morning stars, spoken of In |
and be ope ps pgend,S rendeTed by % tbe eyeneR
stars OF the worlds existence than by the morn
ing stars, and the vespers will be sweeter than
women, @ % and Of all go good churches, % and all re-
form associations is TO bring the race back tn
the original harmony. The rebelious heart TO
be attuned, social life to be attuned, CONNER
ciai ethics to be attuned Internationally to be
attuned, hemispheres to be attuned. But by
what force and in what way?
In olden time the choristers had a tuning
fork with two prongs, and they would strike 1t
on the back OF pew or music rack, and put II to
the ear, and then start the tune, and all the
other voices would join. In modern orchestra
the leader has q complete instrument, rightly
attuned, and he sounds that, aud all the other
performtrS turn the keys OF their Instruments
to make them correspond, and sound the bow
over the string, aud listen. and sound out over
again, until all the keys are screwed to conceri
pitch, and the discords melt into one great
symphony, and the curtain hoists, and the
baton tops, and audiences are raptured with
Schumann's Paradise aud the Perl" or
Rossni's' 'stabat Mater" or Baen's "Magnih'
Now, our world can never be attuued by an
imperfect instrument. Even cremona would
not do Heaven has ordained the only instru-
ment, and II Is made out of the wood of the
cross, and the voices that accompany II are
imported voices, cantatrices of the first Christ
mas night, when heaven serenaded the earth
with "Glory to God I'm the highest, and on
earth peace, good will to men," Lest we start
too far off, and get lost In geherali1ies, we had
better begin with ourselves, get our own hearts
and life in harmony with the eternal Christ.
chord our will with His will. to moiulate our
life with His life, and bring us into unison
with all that Is pure and self sacrificing and
heavenly. The strings of our nature arc all
broken and twisted, and the bow is so slack IL
cannot evoke anything mellliuous. The In
roughly twanged and struck by iihuences
worldly and demoniac. Oh master hand of
Christ, restore this split and fractured and de.
spoiled and unstrung nature until first Il shall
wall out for our sin aud tneptri with divine
| pardon.
the same power. A few days ago was inthe
| Fairbanks Weighing Scale Mandatory of
| Vermont Six hundred hands, and they have
never Iht haa s.r,Se a mptste pse onsra1s namqns of of
scores Of years In their beautiful homes near
| by the mansions of the manufacturers, whose
| invention and Christian behavior made the
great enterprise. SO the world over labor and
| capital will be brought into euphony. Youmty
have heard what's called the Anvil Chorus,
mers. great and small, no with mighty stroke,
| and now with heavy stroke, beating great
iron anvil. That is what the world has got to
| come to--anvil chorus, yard stick chorus,
shuttle chorus, trbwei chorus, crowbar corus'
| pickaxe chorus. go,dmine chorus, rail track
chorus, locomotive chorus. i can be done,
attuned by the Gospel harp. There, will be
as many classes in society as now, but the
classes will not be regulated by birth, or
Of virtue and benevolepce, and pco
pie will be assigned to their places as
good or very good or most excellent. So also
will be twelve in every dozen, and sixteen
ounces In every pound and apples at the bot
tom OF the barrel will be as sound as those on
top, and silk goods Will not be cotton, and
sellers will not have to charge honest people
more than the right price because Others will
not pay, and goods will come TO YOU corre-
chased them, and coffee will not be cbickoried,
and sugar will not be sanded. and milk will
not be chalked, and edulleration of food will
shall be attuned. Elections in England and
the United States will no more be grand car
nival of defamation and scurriliy, but the
elevation of righteous men In a righteous way.
In the sixteenth century the singers called
the Fischer Brothers reached the lowest bass
ever recorded ana tho highest note ever trilled
was by La Bastardella, aud Catalini's voice mad
q compass of three and half octaves; but
Christianity Is more wonderful, for 1t runs
all up and down the greatest heights aud
hn M Nvnrtl'G
and II Will compass everything and bring II in
accord with the song which the morning stars
sang at the laying of the worlds cornerstone.
All the sacred music in homes, ana conccrt
halls, ard churches tends toward this consum
nation. Make II more and more hearty. Sing
in your families, sing in your places of busi
ness. If we with proper spirit use these fAcul-
ties we are rehearsng for the skies.
Heaven is to have a new song an entirely
new song, but should not wonder H. as some
time OH earth II tune is fashioned out of many
tunes. or II Is one tune with the variations, sO
some of the songs of the redeemed may ave
Through them f0e OF ea55 Sa ana
anthem of the saved, accompanied by harpers
with their harps, and trumpeiers with their
of Antioch, and Mount Psgah, and Coronation,
and LenoS, and ST. Martins, and Fountain,
and Ariel, and Old Hundred. How they would
mupion NJ days and nd TIE % Shrstmns Sfs; Festivals f and
the church worship in which on earth W.
mingled have no Idea that h when, when we e. bid M
2snd to sah oS s od
melted and raptured eur souls for SO many
years. Now, my friends, If sin is discord and
one one and enter the other. After our dreadful
, civil war was over, and in the summer o
1869, a great national peace Jubilee was held
been honored by the selection of some OF the
/, music to be rendered on that occasion, nc
companied him to the jubilee. Forty thou
sand people sat and stood in the grea
| coliseum erected for that TlDu
sands of wind ,ni strirged instruments
Twelve thousand ~ trained voices; Ch,
aises hour, and day alter day@HandeTs
Judas Maccabnns," Sphor's Last Judgment
Bcethoven's Mount Of Olives" Haydn,'
beers "Coronstion March," rolling on and ~
in surgess that billowed against the heavens
/ The mighty cadences with In were accompanies
| on the outside by the ringing of the bells o
the city and cannon on the commons in exac
/. time with the music discharged by electricity
t laundering their awful bars of harmony tina
astounded all nations. Sometimes l bowet
my head and wept, Sometimes stood up, ii
the enchantment. and sometimes the eiec
s,, was so 9pyerpSSySering ] fslt ! could no
in full chorus, and ali the sStons i
} full wave, aud all the orchestra IL
full triumph, and hundred anvils unde
the towers of the city rolled in their majestic
, sweetness and the whole building quakeC
5 with the boom of thirty cannon, Parepa Rosa
| WIN NoiCe lhut VIII ueNSr hBuii De eluhlc'
on earth until the archangelic voice proclaim
that time shall be no longer, rose above al
. other sounds In her rendering of our nations
air, ''The Star Spapgled Banner" 1t was TN
| much for a mortal, and quite enough for Al
, immortal to hear, and while some tainted
one womanly spirit, released under its power
| sped away to be with God.
: o Lord, our God, quickly usher In the who'll
! worlds peace jubilee, and all islands OF tn
| | sea Join the five continents, and all the voice
and musical instruments of all nations CON
bipe, and all the organs that ever sounded rc
QUEEN OF sorrow sound only q grand march q
Joy, and all the bells that tolled for burial rim
! for resurrection, and all the cannon that eve
, | hurled death across the nations sound L
eternal victory, and over all the acclaim
1 of earth and ministrelsy of heaven there vii
!. be heard one voice sweeter and mighter thai
3 any human or nngelIo voice, q voice once fnl